BBC news 24 have a ticker on the Artemis II mission key moments including the upcoming event on Tuesday "crew speak about first human views of Moon" which does lead me to question what the big round thing in the sky at night time is?

He replied to him, "Amen, I say to you, today you will be with me in [the bundle]"

A memory of the "are the Fae open source?" just sprang unbidden into my consciousness and I shuddered

Michael Sowa #WyrdWednesday

I am not an April fools person, not at all, but The Phoenix is the one exception. Every year they prank kids with a different ‘wrong’ magazine, and every year the dedication to the bit is outSTANDING 🫡

A friend took her toddler to our local church messy play and they made Easter biscuits that included small Jesus figurines. The prominent JESUS IS NOT EDIBLE sign over the craft table unintentionally kicking off the next Christian schism.

May have finally pushed me over the edge to include this in my Bushranger lecture

‘Succulent Chinese meal’ speech added to Australia’s National Film and Sound Archive

After much deliberation I decided to pick up Victoria 3 because I am fan of spreadsheets with nice graphics and so far it's less a colonialism simulator and more an economics simulatuor since I'm playing piedmonte

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller March 30,1944

Sunny tangerines ☀️🍊🐈 #art #traditionalart #cuteart #caturday

youtu.be/zdM4tdLQBg0?... I still can't quite believe this isn't a parody trailer

One of the many great things about Project Hail Mary is that it accurately captured what it's like waking up in the morning as me

The double Elle Fanning robot film has it's faults, but it does have Elle Fanning playing two robots. And that really is enough for me. Confirming that the only thing better than one robot in an Alien adjacent film is two robots

Should probably check if I acquired any mysterious birthday presents I forgot about because I sure am feeling like too little butter scraped over too much bread

'In one of the documents seen by Index, the school admits that the categorisations of the books were written using AI, writing: “Although the categorisation was generated using AI, I consider this classification to be broadly accurate.”' Absolutely sickening

Screened Near Dark today. Got to say Vampire Western a lot. Also extra special thanks to the 2(!) students who attended my final seminar and led me to the genuinely mind blowing conclusion (for me anyway) that just because Dracula has a cowboy in it doesn't make it a Western

Chuck Norris jokes were the first memes that people who weren't funny could join in on. A true harbinger.

Irish people: St. Patrick's Day presents such a stereotypical portrayal of Ireland that doesn't reflect its modern, vibrant culture. Irish people when they see Americans setting Leprechaun traps: You fools! You've doomed us all! The children will be changelings. The crops will wither in the field.

One of the hardest things to come to terms with is that most people just do not care what words actually mean, especially when it comes to the fine distinction between meanings.

Teaching Grand Theft Hamlet tomorrow and all I can think about are my boys not being on boats youtu.be/SEZvh5rVnPo?...

“I always say about people who do method acting, you only ever see people do the method when they’re playing a–holes. You never see someone being lovely to everyone while they’re really deep in character.” Robert Pattinson

In *2018* I had a bit in my show about my mother revealing who Banksy was, because she knew HIS mum: 'oh yes, Mrs Gunningham's boy'. Here, a major news agency claims to have 'uncovered' this data nearly a decade after Margaret Watson broke it. www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

I am screening Grand Theft Hamlet on Tuesday, which I am looking forward to but I also need to write a lecture about it that is not just Charlie Conspiracy Board from Always Sunny meme

youtu.be/FV8Pf-Z-psE?... I still cannot get over how perfectly these titles capture the experience of what reading The Vampire Lestat as a teenager did to my brain

University of Warwick and the British Film Institute are pleased to announce a fully funded collaborative doctoral studentship, starting in Oct 2026, under the AHRC’s Collaborative Doctoral Partnerships (CDP) scheme. More info and application details here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/sca...

For anyone interested in finding out more, I also have a book coming out later this year that explores some of these themes - as well as the issue of AI and virtuality - in more detail www.bloomsbury.com/uk/screening...

Just occurred to me that a good portion of my feedback on student essays amounts to "what a lot of things you use good morning for"

I remember when I finally "got" the Adrian Chiles appeal. Not in a kitschy way but in a "so many uk opinion pieces are a nasty cesspool and this is just a guy being a dude in the blandest way possible and sometimes we need that" kind of way

cats are funny guys because they look at you with such meaning and what the meaning is just so happens to be “can I have a crunchy please”

Fucking hell

This weekend's chore companion has been the audiobook of Stephen King's From a Buick 8. Pleasing to revisit this in audio given confessional form. Struck by how much it relies on the ambiguity of description for its horror. Some really nice stuff about inadequacy of language to map the alien

I think I might watch Alien Covenant again soon. Not just because I've been (inexpertly but enthusiastically) running some Free League Alien lately but also because I can mostly just remember the good bits, like David fingering while Walter blows youtu.be/n9D0oVCZBHs?...

Read this as you wish.

My article on the history of the Bride has been published in @uk.theconversation.com tying in with the release of The Bride! theconversation.com/a-brief-cine...

Truly fantastic poetic response to Gawain that puts the possibility of queer sensuality in the original front and center, beautifully so too. I love how much this is simultaneously a transformation but also absolutely 100% consistent with the text (and the BEST bits of the text at that)

10/10 joke no comments

Slightly shifting the question, but my answer is, as always Muppet Great Expectations (The Great Muppet Expectations?)

In the 2006 episode of "and the academy award goes to" Paul Gambaccini describes Brokeback Mountain as a story of love overcoming all obstacles and you know I think Jack Twist getting beaten to death with a tire iron is a pretty insurmountable obstacle my guy

All I really want right now is to be a cat so curled up on myself that my feet are almost in my ears, which twitch while I make little snuffly purr snores And yet I am condemned to be a human with a job

Probably should come up with a more coherent take on The Searchers than "there's a lot going on" for when I teach it on Tuesday but folks, there really is a lot going on

I'm enjoying teaching stuff about 00s internet and computer culture, as well as brief history of home computing/gaming at the moment, also relishing(?) the experience of "really excited you asked that question about why he tied an onion to his belt. You see it was the style at the time"

So I guess this is what happens when you've primarily been using youtube to watch king of the hill clips and listen to Bluegrass and C & W for a couple of months not sure if better or worse than when I was witnessing the gamer to fascist pipeline being enacted in realtime in my video recs

Still haven't seen new King of the Hill, but I'm enjoying my rewatch of original immensely (Despite the occasional over identification with Bobby). The show really is great, today evidenced by how the show can hang a dang ol nuanced emotional ol episode man on Boomhauer man

Also for anybody who hasn't seen it their logo goes incredibly hard.

After multiple thwarted attempts I am finally teaching Twilight

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller February 26,1952